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Criminal Law, 11th ed.

By Joycelyn M. Pollock

Criminal Law, Eleventh Edition, a classic introduction to criminal law for criminal justice students, combines the best features of a casebook and a textbook. The book covers substantive criminal law and explores its principles, sources, distinctions, and limitations. Definitions and elements of crimes are explained, and defenses to crimes are thoroughly analyzed. Unique Exploring Case Law boxes offer guidance in using the accompanying cases, which are provided here on the companion website. In addition, each chapter offers guidance to help students understand what is important, including chapter outlines, key terms, learning objectives, Legal News boxes that highlight current criminal law issues, and Quick Checks that cue the reader to stop and answer a question or two concerning the material just covered.

• The relevant cases, which appeared in Part II of prior editions of this textbook, are available on the Students page.
• Support materials are available to instructors who have adopted this text on the Instructors page. These include Instructor’s Guides, PowerPoint presentations, and test banks for every chapter.
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